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When I was just in college taking up my Computer Science degree, Java programming was one of my favorites along with other programming subjects like C, C++, and Microsoft Visual Basic. It was difficult to learn these programming languages during that time because of limited resources like books. We also had no Internet connection during that time which made it more difficult to learn. But today, the growth of the Internet provides us all the resources we need to know about Java and other programming languages for free. One great resources to learn Java are forums and one of which is Java-Forums.org.

Java-Forums.org aims to become the largest Java community online with over 170 members and counting as of this writing. If you are in to Java then this forum is a perfect place for you to learn and interact with other members of the community with similar interests. The forum is categorized into sub-forums like Java SE, Java ME, Java EE, Other APIs, and more. So what are you waiting for? Join Java-Forums.org now! It’s abosulutely free!

There is a difference between Swing and SWT (Standard Widget Tool Kit), and this difference lies in what a programmer wishes to accomplish and how they want to go about doing it. Everyone has their preferences, but SWT can work to let a programmer have easier access to a common API so that widgets can be more accessible over a broader venue. SWT doesn’t provide quite as customizable a look, but as far as Java is concerned, the goal is really more about deeper platform integration.

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You might have noticed online while surfing that many websites and blogs ask the users to register before accessing important data using some kind of a form. While registering through such forms you will see some kind of image where it asks to type the letters contained in that image. This is done inorder to prevent automatic registration by some spam robots and make sure the user is “genuine”. You can very easily accomplish this with a small piece of code using .NET to prevent automatic registrations. If you need more additional help on coding, there are lot of third party user controls in .NET that you can use for preventing automatic registrations.